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falsity
noun as in dishonesty, deception
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In May, when Walmart’s CEO exposed the transparent falsity of that statement by stating, “Higher tariffs will result in higher prices,” an apoplectic president told the company to “EAT THE TARIFFS.”
At his recent news conference, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spewed a firehose of falsity about autism.
He accused the show’s producers of “negligence, knowledge of falsity, and/or a reckless disregard for the truth.”
The way you couched the statement that wasn’t true would indicate the seriousness of its falsity.
Mencken warned us nearly a century ago about “chain-store” methods of journalism and the “eager swallowing” of propaganda done by journalists “in the face of the plainest evidence of its falsity.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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